Chapter 590

The Jiangnan War took only 27 days.

With 87,000 troops, the People's Revolutionary Army and the Army and Army wiped out Du Fuwei in Huainan, Lin Shihong in Ganjiang and Pengli Lake, and Xiao Xian in Jianghan Plain.

He also occupied Zhu Can's Nanyang Basin and Zhou Faming on the south side of the Dabie Mountains.

He also launched the Battle of the Yellow River in the north, wiped out King Bo of Qi County, annexed Qi County and Jibei County; and Xu Yuanlang who was entrenched in Lu County and Rencheng.

With such a terrifying advance speed, seven princes, big and small, were killed in less than a month, which terrified other forces.

Especially Li Tang, Xia Guo (Dou Jiande), Young Marshal Army (Kou Zhong), and Wagang Army (Li Mi), who have already formally bordered on the RPLU, are even more worried at this time.

However, Li Tang can only defend Bashu and Hanzhong with all his strength now, because they are in Liangzhou, Xue Ju and his son, Li Gui, and they have to face Liu Wuzhou and Liang Shidu in the north.

And Kou Zhong had just fought Yu Wenhua and forced him to Wei County in Wuyang County.

Li Mi has regained some strength, but his territory is too embarrassing, with opponents in all directions, and now he is staring at Luoyang with Wang Shichong.

Dou Jiande could spare his hand, but because the Human Revolutionary League advanced too fast, it happened to occupy the south side of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and confronted Dou Jiande across the Yellow River.

Faced with such a formidable enemy, all forces had to make a difficult choice.

November 12, 3rd year of the new calendar.

That is, the first year of Tang-Wu De. .

Li Yuan and Li Shimin, with the support of the Guanzhong clan and other forces, took advantage of Xue Ju's death to defeat the resistance forces in Jincheng, and then quickly defeated Li Gui in Xiliang, initially removing the threat to the west of the Guanzhong Plain.

However, it was not all smooth sailing for Li Tang. For example, his hometown Jinyang was captured by Liu Zhouwu.

On November 12th.

The five forces of Li Mi, Kou Zhong, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, and Luo Yi are forming an alliance in Wei County. Obviously, they already know that if they continue to fight each other, they will definitely be defeated by Rengelian or Li Tang.

They quickly divided the sphere of influence, and then agreed to the outside world, prohibiting each other from attacking each other, and any conflicts can be discussed in the mutual protection alliance.

In fact, the establishment of a mutual protection alliance has its own core interests for these five forces.

For example, Wang Shichong, who is now sandwiched between Li Tang, Wagangzhai, and Dou Jiande,

The Heluo Basin has no danger to defend. If part of the pressure is not relieved as soon as possible, Luoyang City may collapse by itself.

Because of Li Mi's improper position, there are also a lot of problems in the Wagang Army, and his position is as embarrassing as Wang Shichong.

What is even more frightening is that his sphere of influence has a long border with the Human Revolutionary League. From Huainan to the Nanyang Basin, the border area between the two sides is thousands of kilometers long.

This situation made Li Mi restless.

Kou Zhong had just fought head-to-head with Yu Wenhuaji, and the territory was also large and bordered by Renjiao, so it would be impossible not to form an alliance.

Dou Jiande is also because of the expansion of the Human Revolutionary League to the south bank of the Yellow River, which is separated from him by the Yellow River.

As for Luo Yi in Youzhou, he does not have a land border with the RULE. The problem is that the Bohai Sea is a bathtub, and the RULE navy can land on the coast of the Bohai Sea at any time.

In addition, Youzhou is directly facing the northern grasslands, and Tiele's ministries are eyeing the Central Plains, and there is an unbeatable Goguryeo in the east.

After much deliberation, these people had to make a choice.

With the establishment of the Zhuxia Alliance, Li Tangping settled Liangzhou.

Let the Central Plains enter a seemingly three-legged situation, but how long this situation can last depends on the digestion speed of the Human Revolutionary Union.

Moreover, the Zhuxia Alliance is only a loose alliance, and now it has to unite in the face of the high pressure of the Human Revolutionary Alliance and Li Tang's prying eyes.

Valley green

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Jingzhou.

A fleet of ships is moored on Jushui, a tributary of the Yangtze River. There is a small pier here, and not far away is the famous Pegasus Ranch in the south of the Yangtze River.

Song Shidao, who came down from the boat, showed an embarrassed smile when he saw the beautiful woman standing on the bank leading the horse.

This time he came to Pegasus Ranch on his own initiative, mainly because he didn't want to hurt Shang Xiuxun.

"Are you here to persuade me to surrender?"

The voice was cold, and there was a trace of distance.

Song Shidao couldn't help heartache, but he forced a smile: "Xiu Xun, this world is very big, would you like to go and see it with me?"

"..." Shang Xiuxun froze for a moment, then shook his head amusedly: "The Human Revolutionary League sent you here to use beauty tricks?"

Embarrassed Song Shidao, his face was a little hot: "Xiu Xun, I asked to come here on my own initiative. The alliance didn't ask me to do anything, I just worried about you."

Hearing the last sentence, Shang Xiuxun's heart softened a little: "How do you plan to arrange the Pegasus Ranch? I'm talking about the ranch people."

"If the alliance wants to enter the north, it will definitely need a large number of war horses, as well as people with experience in raising horses. Those who have horses will be recruited to the horse herding company; those who are unwilling to raise horses will be allocated 10 acres of land uniformly, or become factory workers. It just can’t be private property anymore.”

Shang Xiuxun thought for a while, then nodded, she half-jokingly said: "I will rely on you for support from now on, Mr. Song."

"Don't worry, my salary is enough to support you." Song Shidao was overjoyed.

With Song Shidao's beautiful men and the force of the Human Revolutionary Alliance, Pegasus Ranch did not cause any disturbance even if some executives were dissatisfied.

If it weren't for the fact that there are so many horse breeders in the Pegasus Ranch, Qin Mo, who just took over as governor of Jingzhou, would not be so polite.

After the personnel of the Human Revolutionary Union entered the Pegasus Ranch, they quickly counted the population, horses, cattle and sheep, and fixed assets.

The entire Pegasus Ranch has a population of about 37,000 and 17,000 horses. Among them, only about 2,400 horses can be used as war horses. Most of the rest are rough horses, and a small number of stallions and ponies.

There are 21,000 cattle, 63,000 goats, and 2,713 black pigs. Such a large ranch is very rare in the Jiangnan area.

As for why they were able to stay outside the control of the Sui Dynasty, it was actually related to the situation at that time. When the Sui Dynasty was at its peak, there were a large number of pastures in the north, so naturally they looked down on the more than 10,000 horses in the Pegasus Ranch.

What's more, the Pegasus Ranch is closely related to the Jiangnan family. When Yang Jian was there, he focused on appeasing the south.

In the Yang Guang period, the focus was on the Grand Canal and Yangzhou in the early stage, and uprisings broke out in various places in the later stage, and there was no energy to pay attention to the Pegasus Ranch.

The Pegasus Ranch can exist, and it is a product of a specific period. Once the dynasty is unified and the good horses from the north continue to flow south, the decline of the Pegasus Ranch is inevitable.

For these horses, cattle and sheep, Qin Mo established a flying horse ranch company to manage these assets, and at the same time sent some of the horses to Jiaodong Prefecture.

Human Leather Union also set up a Jiaodong animal husbandry company in Jiaodong Prefecture, and began to lay out the horse breeding industry and animal husbandry in the northern region.

In the case of poor road conditions, horse transport is an effective supplement.

Even with steam locomotives and trains, horse transport still has huge uses in some rural areas.

As for the cavalry, the Army has not established a separate cavalry unit for the time being, mainly because the southern water network is densely covered, and the northern control area is also close to the coast and rivers.

Coupled with the deterrent power of modern weapons, cavalry escaped faster than infantry in front of machine guns and artillery.

Song Shidao took Shang Xiuxun back to meet Song Que, and then planned to take her to other places in the Human Revolutionary League.